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Broadband Related => Mobile broadband => Topic started by: meritez on February 01, 2022, 11:24:42 AM

Title: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: meritez on February 01, 2022, 11:24:42 AM

The LTAP Mini is a small weatherproof wireless access point with LTE antennas, two SIM card slots, integrated GPS and a miniPCI-E slot:
https://mikrotik.com/product/ltap_mini

I purchase mine from Stuff UK, who delivered within a week: https://www.stuff-uk.net/p-3098000.aspx
It can be powered via DC, microUSB or normal POE 802.3af/at.

Using a Mikrotik R11e-LTE on Smarty, my average speedtest with the internal antennas is about 15 down and 10 up connected to Band 1 LTE.

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: craigski on February 01, 2022, 11:43:48 AM

Interesting. Does this include all I need apart from SIM to connect to 4G and ethernet? Reason I ask is the link says install a LTE modem of choice, so maybe I need something else?

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: meritez on February 01, 2022, 12:22:38 PM

You would need to purchase a Mini-PCIe LTE modem for the Mini-PCIe slot, for example:
R11e-LTE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mikrotik-r11e-lte-Internal-150-Mbit-Network/dp/B079YVP7MF or https://www.wifi-stock.co.uk/details/mikrotik-r11e-lte.html
R11e-LTE6 https://www.amazon.co.uk/MikroTik-miniPCIe-LTE-card-R11e-LTE6/dp/B0843VR2WR or https://www.wifi-stock.co.uk/details/mikrotik-2g3g4glte-minipci-e-card-with-carrier-aggregation-support-r11e-lte6.html
Quectel EC25 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quectel-M2M-optimized-Module-150Mbps-Seller/dp/B094JS2ZB4
Quectel EP06
Huawei Me909s

will have a look for good prices, these are lte cards that work

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: craigski on February 01, 2022, 12:49:49 PM

Thanks for clarification, this is very timely as I'm looking for an additional connection to backup my FTTP (that is currently LOS again).

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: meritez on February 01, 2022, 04:05:27 PM

If you go to www.cellmapper.net you can check your local coverage for mobile.
If you go to https://bidb.uk/ you can check your 5g coverage to your property according to the network

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: aesmith on February 03, 2022, 03:49:56 PM

Have you been able to find a compatible modem that supports Band 32 and CA?

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: meritez on February 03, 2022, 04:10:15 PM

Quote from: aesmith on February 03, 2022, 03:49:56 PM

Have you been able to find a compatible modem that supports Band 32 and CA?

Quectel EM12-G
https://github.com/4IceG/EM12-G handy excel spreadsheet on here

you will need a mini pcie to m2 converter

https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?p=903913&hilit=ec25#p903913

Title: Re: Testing the Mikrotik LTAP Mini
Post by: meritez on September 01, 2022, 04:26:54 PM

https://www.dl8rds.de/index.php/Getting_GPS_to_work_on_my_Mikrotik_LtAP

My ACGPSA arrived,

going to look at building this:
https://github.com/krogio/LTAPGPS